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The monkey Tachtouch in Al Qouzah, southern Lebanon, June 7, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT/AFP)
June 8, 2019, 5:49 am
Tachtouch returns to Lebanon after monkeying around in Israel
After his weeklong escapade in Jewish state, French nun who owns the vervet calls him a ‘peace messenger’ for crossing militarized border
By AFP
A vervet monkey that escaped from a farm in southern Lebanon, crossed the border into Israel and evaded capture for two weeks, was finally tempted into a cage with food, June 6, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
June 6, 2019, 11:26 pm
Lebanese monkey nabbed after 2-week chase in northern Israel
Experts from Yodfat Monkey Forest finally manage to tempt vervet into cage with food after he was spotted in villages and towns around northern Israel but evaded capture
By Sue Surkes
A monkey, which escaped from a farm in southern Lebanon and crossed into Israel, explores a stack of empty fruit crates in the town of Dir al Assad. (Twitter screenshot, June 3, 2019)
June 4, 2019, 1:14 am
Lebanese monkey still on the run in northern Israel
The primate that infiltrated the border last week continues to show up in various towns in northern Israel, evading all efforts to capture it
By TOI staff
A monkey, which escaped from a farm in southern Lebanon and crossed into Israel, encounters a puzzled dog in a sheep pen. (Twitter screenshot, May 26, 2019)
May 29, 2019, 8:04 pm
Mischievous monkey escapes from Lebanese farm, enters Israel
Vervet makes dash for freedom from Ship of Peace farm run by French nun near Bint Jbeil and crosses border into Israel, where it continues to evade capture
By TOI staff
Chimpanzee family. (iStock by Getty Images/ apple2499)
February 10, 2019, 5:15 pm
Chimps use branch to make ladder, escape Belfast Zoo
Breakout is second in as many weeks, after runaway red panda found in garden near Northern Ireland zoo
By AP
Screen capture from video of a scene from the 1996 Disney movie 'The Lion King.' ( YouTube)
October 22, 2018, 2:36 am
Israeli photographer’s real-life ‘Lion King’ photo grabs headlines
Dafna Ben Nun snaps monkey holding infant aloft in image that mirrors iconic scene from Disney movie where Simba is presented to the world
By Stuart Winer
A picture taken on March 27, 2018 at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv, shows an orangutan eating traditional matzah (unleavened bread) in the run up to the Jewish holiday of Passover. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
March 28, 2018, 10:14 am
Safari animals munch on matzah as Passover nears
Unleavened bread and kosher-for-Passover feed provided at Ramat Gan Safari Park in line with festival injunction to steer clear of leavened products
By Sue Surkes
In this undated photo provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua sit together with a fabric toy. (Sun Qiang and Poo Muming/Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP)
January 25, 2018, 3:37 am
Researchers clone monkeys, but humans still seen as double trouble
Chinese scientists say procedure creating identical macaques will be useful for lab experiments, though prospects of cloning people still regarded as beyond the pale
By Malcolm Ritter
This year’s heartwarming moments include a girl who helped decorate a vandalized cemetery, a dog who saved two lives, and an unlikely friendship between a monkey and a chicken. (Lior Zaltzman/via JTA)
December 27, 2017, 11:21 am
The 7 most heartwarming Jewish stories of 2017
This year saw plenty of happy features peppered among the violence and political discord. Here are a few of our favorites
By Josefin Dolsten
A four-year-old Indonesian black macaque named Niv holds a young chicken at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv on August 25, 2017 after she adopted the bird when it wondered into their enclosure. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 25, 2017, 3:55 pm
Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo
Four-year-old Indonesian macaque named Niv opts to adopt a fowl after having difficulty finding a partner at the Ramat Gan Safari
By AFP
Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya, on February 14, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, file)
November 21, 2016, 12:54 pm
20 dead as Libyans clash over ‘monkey incident’
Melee said to have started after a child from one tribe was attacked by animal belonging to rival tribe
By AFP
A monkey holds a fan with Chinese characters that read "elected" as it sits between cardboard cutouts of US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton , at a park in Changsha, in China's Hunan province on November 3, 2016. ( AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT)
November 4, 2016, 4:47 pm
China’s ‘monkey king’ picks Trump as president
After ‘deliberate thought,’ prophetic primate congratulates cardboard candidate with a kiss on the lips
By AFP
Some of a dozen monkeys and two deer transported from the Gaza Strip, via Israel, to a zoo in Tulkarem, September 26, 2016. (COGAT spokesperson)
September 26, 2016, 5:52 pm
Gaza Strip monkeys, deer sent to West Bank zoo
Palestinian Authority Agriculture Ministry asks Israeli authorities for help after conditions in Rafah facility deemed inhumane
By Stuart Winer
Saeed, whose name is Arabic for 'happy,' a 22-year-old hamadryas baboon, sits at the Sabil park in the government side of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Youssef KARWASHAN).
September 15, 2016, 4:46 pm
In Aleppo, Happy the monkey is zoo’s last resident
Amid raging civil war and rocket strikes, lonely baboon is sole surviving animal in park, living in grim conditions
By Maher Al Mounes
Spider monkey escaping from Hai-Kef zoo in Rishon Lezion (Israel police)
August 30, 2016, 2:57 pm
Monkey nabbed after daring escape from Rishon zoo
Gate to enclosure was not securely closed, leading to police chase and drama on city streets
By TOI staff
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